Customers select HP and oracle to modernize legacy environments
January 28, 2008
HP and Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), in collaboration with Intel Corp., today announced that their Application Modernization Initiative is gaining momentum as customers increasingly migrate away from legacy systems to drive business growth with more reliable and efficient IT infrastructures.
Introduced last year at Oracle OpenWorld 2006, the Application Modernization Initiative is a comprehensive solution that helps businesses modernize their legacy environments to increase business agility and performance, reduce operational costs and lower risks.
The initiative is a multi-vendor collaboration that delivers specialized hardware, software and services that are designed to help companies easily transition from legacy environments to an open-standards based infrastructure that is flexible enough to meet dynamic business conditions.
The Application Modernization Initiative was most recently adopted by the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket), a government agency under the Ministry of Finance in Sweden. In leveraging the tools and resources of the Application Modernization Initiative to modernize its IT environment, the organization joins, among others, BBVA, a Madrid-based multinational financial services group, and Carrefour Italy, part of one of the world’s leading distribution companies and the world’s second-largest retailer.
HP also is expanding its worldwide delivery capability starting with the tripling of its delivery capacity at the HP Mainframe Modernization Centre of Excellence in Madrid to meet the increased customer demand for the Application Modernization Initiative projects.
The company also announced a customer demonstration showcase, which is being piloted for worldwide deployment from its Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) competency center in Sophia Antipolis, France. The showcase is designed to highlight HP, Intel and Oracle’s expertise application and legacy systems modernization. Additional customer demonstration centers will be located in Tokyo, Singapore and Cupertino, Calif.
When the Swedish Tax Agency wanted to modernize its technology infrastructure to make its operational activities more effective, it worked with HP Services and the HP Mainframe Modernization Centre of Excellence to design and implement an application modernization solution. The agency’s objective was to simplify its procedures when interacting with both the public and business community.
The Application Modernization Initiative solution incorporates the Oracle Grid Computing Platform with SOA capabilities, including Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Manager/Grid Control.
The solution runs on HP Integrity systems based on Intel® Itanium® processors – working with the HP Virtual Server Environment Reference Architecture and HP Software Business Technology Optimization solutions that include SOA governance, quality and management products – making it an ideal platform to achieve the required availability, scalability and resource utilization.
It is designed, implemented and supported through the HP Application Modernization Services portfolio and also includes architectural design and consulting support from HP, Intel and Oracle.
Underscoring the open nature of the Application Modernization Initiative, HP, Intel and Oracle also announced today the first two members of a network of independent software vendors whose offerings complement the initiative.
Relativity Technologies, Inc. supports the initiative with its Modernization Workbench® software platform. The platform maximizes the business value of existing operations by analyzing, adapting and re-architecting legacy applications. Orsyp S.A. is providing its market-leading Dollar Universe job and batch scheduler software used by thousands of companies worldwide across a broad range of platforms.
More information on the Application Modernization Initiative product and service offerings is available at www.hp.com/go/ami.